American Impersonal : essays with Sharon Cameron /

"American Impersonal brings together some of the most influential scholars now working in American literature to explore the impact of one of America's leading literary critics: Sharon Cameron. It engages directly with certain arguments that Cameron has articulated throughout her career, m...

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Online Access:Electronic book from Proquest Ebook Central Academic Complete
Other Authors: Arsic, Branka.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
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  • PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: James D. Lilley - Being Singularly Impersonal: Jonathan Edwards and the Aesthetics of ConsentChapter 2: Colin Dayan - Melville's Creatures, or Seeing OtherwiseChapter 3: Paul Grimstad - On Ecstasy: Sharon Cameron's Reading of EmersonChapter 4: Johannes Voelz - The Recognition of Emerson's Impersonal: Reading Alternatives in Sharon CameronChapter 5: Vesna Kuiken - On the Matter of Thinking: Margaret Fuller's Beautiful WorkChapter 6: George Kateb - Reading NatureChapter 7: Branka Arsic - What Music Shall We Have? Thoreau on the Aesthetics and Politics of ListeningChapter 8: Kerry Larson - Hawthorne's Fictional Commitments: The Early TalesChapter 9: Theo Davis - Hawthorne's Rage: On Form and the DharmaChapter 10: Shira Wolosky - Formal, New, and Relational Aesthetics: Dickinson's MultitextsChapter 11: Michael Moon - Beyond Sense: Portraits and Objects in Henry James's Late WritingsChapter 12: Shari Goldberg - Believing in Maud-Evelyn: Henry James and the Obligation to GhostsChapter 13: Mark Noble - The Ends of Imagination: Stevens' ImpersonalNote on ContributorsIndex.